Mordant or dye and process of making the same



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GERMAN MORALES LbPEZ AND ALBERTO QUAGLIA, OF BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.

MORDANT OR DYE AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GERMAN MonALEs Lopez and ruinnn'ro QUAGLIA,subjects of the Kings of Spain and Ital y, respectively, and residentsof Buenos Aires, Argentina, have invented a. certain new and usefullvlordant or Dye and Process of Making the Same, of which the followingis a specification.

The present invention relates to a new iiidusti-ial product capable ofbeing utilized as a inordant for fixing the colors of silks and otherfabrics and materials, or as a dye for coloring the same, and forstrengthening the tissues of such fabrics or materials, as well as forthe manufacture of inks, for tanning and 'for other purposes of ananalogous nature.

According to the invention, the fruit of the lignuinvitae tree(U'isalpim'a mclcmm 000790), or equivalent tropical Americanzygophyllaceous tree of the genus guaiacuin, is collected in a fullyripened state and desiccated either in the open air or in special stovesor the like until the volatile juices are lost and the gunnny parts havebecome sul liciently dried to admit of their being triturated in anordinary triturating machine. At the completion of the trituratingoperation, the powder obtained thereby is screened and then compressed.

e claim as our invention 1. The herein-described process of ob-Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 24, 1919. Serial N0. 306,506.

taining a new industrial product, consisting in desiccating the fruit ofa tree of the genus guaiacinn until the volatile juices are lost and theguininy parts have become dried, and then subjecting the said driedgummy parts to a triturating action to obtain a powder.

2. The herein-described process of obtaining a new industrial product,consisting in desiccating the fruit of a tree of the genus guaiacuniuntil. the volatile juices are lost and the gummy parts have becomedried, suhj ecting the dried gunnny parts to a triturating action, andthen screening and coiniressing the powder thus obtained.

3. As a new industrial product, a powder obtained 2y desiccating theripened fruit of a tree of the genus guaiacuni, and then triturating thedried gummy parts of the fruit resulting from the triturating operation.

4:. As a new industrial product, a screened and compressed powderobtained. from the ripened fruit of a tree of the genus guaiacum bysuccessively desiceating the fruit and then triturating the dried gummyparts thereof.

Signed at Buenos Aires, Argentina, this 22d day of May,rA. D. 1919.

GERMAN MORALES LOPEZ. r-XLBERTO QUAGLIA.

